Joseph Kaiser
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Joseph Kaiser

Background in finance, engineering, and philosophy. Increasingly focused on software engineering and AI/ML research.

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Projects

Selected work.

ai-chat

Self-hosted coding companion on vLLM with streaming, workspace tools, agent harness, and voice.

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myrssfeed

Self-hosted RSS reader on a Raspberry Pi with feed scoring, theme labeling, newsletter ingestion, and a web UI that stays out of the way.

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Philosophy

Seek to build tools that create leverage for the user, abstract away pain.

Invest in learning, with priority on scalable practicies that benefit from a high degree of leverage.

Optimize environmental defaults and incentives for the advantage of users.

Tools

Believe requirements preceed tool choice, but strongly prefer simple tools that reward mastery with a high degree of freedom.

Languages

Python, HTML, CSS, C, Bash, SQL, TypeScript

Software Stack

CUDA, vLLM, Hugging Face, PyTorch, FastAPI, Sqlite3

Dev Tools

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Docker, Git, Linux, Vim

Contact

Try me at one of the links below!